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On March 9, Apple hosted the March 2015 Special event. Tim cook presented the new products and innovations that Apple has been working on.
Personally, I am more excited about the new 12″ MacBook and the Apple Watch. Continue reading “Apple’s March 2015 Special Event: what you need to know”
Today, during the March 2015 Spring Forward event, Tim Cook spoke about the most important Apple Watch features, its release date and the technology and innovations that made the Apple Watch possible.
I mention the most important announcements.
Continue reading “Apple Watch – 20 important announcements from the March 2015 Special Event”
This past weekend I got to watch Jupiter Ascending movie. I was amused by the visuals and the universe constructed by this movie. In this blog post, I will share with you some of the interesting things I observed.
Spoiler alert: do not continue reading if you plan to watch the movie.
Here we go:
I hope you enjoyed this list. It is far from being complete. Please write me your comments below.
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Hello readers,
Yesterday I had the chance to listen to the new album released by James Ludwig Stark on Amazon:
I don’t want to talk much about the album except that I really liked it and the songs live up to their names. I can easily imagine this music being used in movie sound tracks!
These are the songs in the album, see for yourself:
| Anna | 1:33 |
| Rise | 2:54 |
| Teardrops On My Piano | 2:40 |
| Into The Darkness | 2:37 |
| The Woman Standing In The Dark | 3:31 |
| An Untold Story | 3:07 |
| Dark Side Of Gloria | 2:56 |
| Burying My Grandma | 2:35 |
| Goodbye My Friend | 2:09 |
| After 64 Consecutive Rejections | 3:08 |
You can listen to samples on Amazon.com or just buy the whole album!
…and by the way, if you notice the last song’s name “After 64 Consecutive Rejections”, I cannot but think “64 bits” in computer terms! 🙂
Enjoy!
Hello,
This week I released my first eBook, part of the PassingTheKnowledge series, on Amazon’s Kindle publishing platform also known as KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing.
What I published is a pocket guide full of tips and tricks useful for your first trip to Lebanon. The contents of this pocket guide is assembled from interviewing various people and from my own personal knowledge while living in Lebanon.
I cover important topics that give you practical idea on what to expect: how people drive in Lebanon, how to avoid being scammed or fall for tourist traps, etc…
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So I went to Vancouver by car and forgot my phone’s data roaming setting on!
An hour later I realized that and turned it off…It was too late because my phone downloaded 12MB (luckily)…but AT&T charged me 188$ for 12MB of data 🙂
What can I say!! We are in the 21st century and in the USA (and not some 3rd world country) and yet AT&T charges 188$ for 12MBs! What a shame! Sometimes paying high bills for cellular data, often higher than some 3rd world countries, make me really feel sad about how technology is there but greedy people benefit from it!
Oh well….Isn’t T-Mobile better with its free data roaming plans?
Do you have other “horror” stories related to AT&T to share? Please post your comments!
UPDATE 02/25/2015
I got to contact AT&T customer service by phone and the representative did not help me: “Sir, per our policy, we cannot do anything about that”.
I tried the online chat and explained the situation. The representative asked his supervisor what can be done in this situation. They explained because it was by mistake and the first time that this happens, they will credit me back 50% of that amount.Better than nothing.
I still believe they can do better than T-Mobile when it comes to cheaper or free data roaming in North America.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 78,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
Windows 10 Technical Preview has been recently update and it got even better. In this review post, I will cover some new features in Windows 10 TP.
Yep, the Start button and the Start menu are back again. The Start menu is now a hybrid between Windows 7 start menu and Windows 8 tiles menu:
This is a quick blog post to tell you about a bunch of nice password recovery utilities for Windows. They are free and very useful. Please check out the following password recovery tools:
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Hello Readers,
This year was riddled by lots of ups and downs. Year after year I am learning to accept what life has to offer and how to be more patient and optimistic.
It seems that everything, no matter how bad it looks, is there to teach me a lesson. Life seems to always remind of this nice story.
These are the worthwhile things I accomplished this year: Continue reading “Good bye 2014, Hello 2015”
Hello,
I share with you my negative experience with StraightTalk.
I was a happy user of AT&T but wanted to save some bucks and StraightTalk looked nice and I figured I give a try.
By the way, this is an article that costed me 59.06$ (and 2+ hours of frustration) because I paid for something I never received and could not get a refund. Read on to know why. Continue reading “StraightTalk: Are you thinking to use their service? Think again”
This blog post is inspired by my review and experience with Amazon Echo device.
I will be presenting some other AI based personal assistants.
SHE’S THE WHOLE PACKAGE: a personal assistant, photographer, storyteller, telepresence device & the smartest home automation system.
Check it out from here.
Intelligent self learning home automation and security device, and a smart personal assistant.
Check it out here. Continue reading “Personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistants”
Hello,
I ran into this nice website called “Better Money Habits” that has a bunch of education videos to instruct you how to make a better money decisions.
In regard to this blog post, I found the topic of buying or leasing a car very well explained on that website.
Buying a new car versus a used car
Check this video: https://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/car-buying/preparing-to-buy-or-lease/buy-new-used-car.html
The key factors mentioned are:
What about leasing?
Check this video: https://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/car-buying/preparing-to-buy-or-lease/lease-or-buy-car.html
Key points to consider:
It is almost always that buying the car is cheaper then buy back at the end of the lease, however when leasing you are paying less on a monthly basis.
Hello readers, I just received my Amazon Echo device today. I was one of the lucky Amazon Prime members who got an early invite. What follows is my quick review of this device and two videos to show it to you in action.
Amazon Echo ships in a nice package that contains the following:
Hello, Today I got a call on my cellphone from an unknown number: (913)-370-9619. When I picked up the phone, the lady started talking so fast that I missed the introduction. Her voice was smooth and computer like but I could not really tell for sure. She asked me if I wanted to go for a free cruise to the Bahamas in exchange for telling my friends and family about their service.
Before she can tell me more details she wanted me to see if I qualify:
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I don’t watch TV but I came to learn about Phil Robertson when I was traveling to Anchorage/Alaska from Seattle during the labor’s day weekend (in 2014). When the plane landed in Anchorage airport, people were swarming around two bearded men. My friend and I were wondering: “Who are these people?”
When I asked who they were, I learned that these guys (Phil and Jase) where from the Robertson family and that they have their TV show “The Duck Dynasty” on A&E.
I did my research about Phil and I was happy to learn that he’s into spirituality and a moral way of life. I was intrigued and wanted to know more about Phil’s point of view of life and morality so I bought his book “unPHILtered: The Way I See It”.
Continue reading “unPHILtered: The Way I See It – book review”
